Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-10-26
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Awful Record az Disasters "a Va
r1ous Parts OF the World
stormy, shipwrecks' and Firss sven the
Alroady Large Number 81 Fatalitics
VS. 1iis Year Tho Uncertainty Of
81 81 wildly Portrayed.
NUMEROUS cAsuALT1Es

lss FoxBURa, Pa, Oct TO- "A skill contain
Ing Blk men was oapsized in tile Allegheny
river Monday, and two brothers, & j. and III.
Neville, were drowned The others managed
to- keep up until reached
NV YoRK, Oct l0. -- "a finished school
building attached to the Church OF Dur Lady
OF Mount Carmel, on East One Hundred and
Fifteenth street fell with q crash Monday
while a score Of men were ut work in the
building under the supervision Of Dr.. AZ =.
Kerner, the priest In charge. Five men
were killed outright and ten were more 81
less badly Injured. The casualty was due
to bad work. hastily and ignorantly done.
SAN francisco, Oct is. Additional
details Of the disastrous fire ct Hankow re-
8ceiyed by advlces per steamship Rio de ia
nelri yesterday morning give the number Of
lives lost as ], GOO, and the value Of the
property destroyed afloat and ashore at q
1 ODO, 600 taels 81 4
s LAKE EDwARD, Que, Oct 10. Robert
NeIs' boarding house was burned OF midi
night Sunday. Three OF the boarders,
Thomas Lundus, Of Norton Mills, William
*Buchan, Of Little River, and George Scot
ton, Of California, were burned to crisp.
PEABoDY, Mass, Oct l8.-The house Of
james O'Connell, in this city, was burned
yesterday, and twoof his children, James,
aged &, and Mary, aged 2 years, were sutfo-
Gated. #E
u GLoucEsTER, Mass OCT. 9, The schooner
Herman Banson arrived from the Grand
Banks yesterday. Captain Lawson reports
that September 80 he fell in with the
French fishing sloop st Pierre, of ST. Pierre
He boarded her. and found ten men
drowned in the cabin. The weather being
rough he was unable to do any thing with
her or recover the bodies z
WASHINGTON, Oct 10. = Rear-Adm1ral
Braine, commanding the South Atlantic
squadron, reports to the Navy Department
that September the Brazilian cruiser I'm
pertal Marinbeiro was lost by running upon
a bar at Rio Doce. One officer and fourteen
seamen were lost One hundred and TWEEN
ty SIX persons were saved IT. ~ I.
RoNK's STATION, Pa, Oct 20.-At cross
ing near here Tuesday o buggy containing
Mrs, Jacob Stelzfus and Mrs Barbara Stelz-
ffus was ktruck by . train, and both women
were killed ,@ tS'.1t !
PRovNcErowN, Mass, Oct. 19.-A schoon-
er which arrived yesterday reports the loss
of the fishing schooner Rebecca Nickerson
on the banks, with her crew Of nineteen
men. All the rest Of the fleet have returned
safely. q "a llz#5sa u
WooD1AwN, Neb., Oct 21.-Two freight
trains collided here on the Burlington road,
early Wednesday; the cars were wrecked
and took fire, being completely consumed.
Brakeman Isaac Davenport was caught in
the debris, and to save him from cremation,
fellow trainnlan chopped off his impris-
oned leg The shock proved too much for
Davenport who died In few hours
LONDON, Oct 2l-The steamer Upnpa
collided with and sunk the German bark
Plantenr, of Beachy Head, of the south
coast Of England, on Tuesday Eleven per-
sons were drowned, and the captain of the
bark has since died. Only two Of the crew
of the bark survived. s .. .'ss. =
MEBouRNE, Oct 2L-The Colonial pas
senger steamer Cheviot has been wrecked
at Port Phillip Many Of the passengers
and crew were drowned. The remainder
have arrived at Melbourne :
ST. Adams, W. Va, Oct ola defective
switch was the cause of an accident here to
fast express bound west on the Chesa-
peake 4 Ohio railroad yesterday, by which
twenty-slx passengers were more or less in
IN ed, four probably fatally. &s7& r
GREERs, s G., Oct 21.-Near this place
= yesterday, freight and passenger trains col
lided, and the engineer Of the passenger
and q woman were killed and ten persons
wee wounded, Of whom four or five were
not expecte ITO survive. =